ATLANTA―Elaine Wyllie, MD, FAES, will be presented with the 58th Lombroso Lecturer Award during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society (AES). The Lombroso Lecture is given each year by a clinician or scientist who is considered an outstanding investigator in the field of epilepsy research. The lecture and award are supported by the AES Lennox and Lombroso Trust. Dr. Wyllie will present her lecture “Overcoming Challenges: Advanced Approaches in Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery”.
Dr. Wyllie is professor emerita of neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and staff emerita of Cleveland Clinic’s Epilepsy Center. Her honors include the Epilepsy Research Award from the American Epilepsy Society, the Herbert H. Jasper Award from the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, the J. Kiffin Penry Award from the American Epilepsy Society, and the Cleveland Clinic Award for Master Clinician.
She is editor of Wyllie’s Treatment of Epilepsy, the standard in the field through eight editions, and author of The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Epilepsy, an authoritative book for the lay public. Throughout her career, Dr. Wyllie published and presented her research in hundreds of articles and presentations.
Dr. Wyllie's research focused on surgery for children with uncontrolled seizures to improve quality of life and maximize developmental potential. Her work helped broaden the selection criteria for surgery to include children with non-localized EEG patterns when an early developmental brain abnormality is present, and children with bilateral MRI abnormalities when seizures are arising exclusively from one hemisphere.
Together with her husband, Dr. Robert Wyllie, Elaine has two sons with careers in quantum physics and computer science engineering. Her hobby is dancing, especially jazz and tango.